Countries should also prioritise the most lifesaving interventions, including treatment and bednets for prevention, said Joy Phumaphi, executive secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance.

The outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has spread to neighbouring countries, with Sweden becoming the first country outside of Africa to report a case last year. Sign up here.

In the knowledge-based economy, protecting intellectual property (IP) has become a crucial indicator of a nation’s ...

78,000 people have now fled to neighbouring countries since mid-December. More than half have headed for Uganda's West Nile region straddling South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In ...

The neighboring countries have been engaged in a decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region in the Caucasus Mountains that was home to around 120,000 ethnic Armenians.